Posted on 09/05/2022 5:59:07 AM PDT by Joe Brower
ATF Requests Funding for Pistol Brace Amnesty Registration Program
Ammoland Inc.
September 2, 2022
John Crump
Washington, DC – -(AmmoLand.com)- AmmoLand News has uncovered information showing that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is planning to force gun owners to register firearms with pistol braces as a National Firearms Act (NFA) ATF Form 1 item.
The document (embedded below) was uncovered in a budget justification from the ATF to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This form confirms the leaked information AmmoLand News has heard for months from our inside sources at the ATF.
The document reads: Due to the upcoming Amnesty Registration of Pistol Brace weapons, photos of the weapon being registered will be required to prove the weapon does utilize a pistol brace in its configuration and would qualify for an amnesty registration.
Pistol Brace Amnesty/Registration
Our ATF inside sources have told AmmoLand News that the ATF was planning for an amnesty period where gun owners would be able to register their braced pistols as short-barreled rifles (SBR) and that it is expected they will receive a free tax stamp. The ATF charges $200 per SBR. Currently, there are at least four million braced pistols in the United States.
The ATF posted the proposed pistol brace rules to the Federal Register late last year for public comment. Over 250,000 comments were submitted, with most comments being against any new regulations. The gun community let their voices be heard, and the ATF ignored them.
The ATF has issued multiple letters stating that pistol stabilizing braces are legal to put on pistols, but this action would change agency’s course.
The White House ordered the ATF to redefine the definition of a firearm and change rules surrounding pistol stabilizing devices. The proposed rule covering frames and receivers was unveiled 30 days later, and the proposed rule for braced pistols was revealed 60 days later. The frames and receiver rule went into effect on August 24th after a 120-day grace period.
The final pistol stabilizing device rule has not been finalized. Based on this budget request and information from our sources, it seems to include a registry. The ATF recently implemented the eForms systems for some Form 1 NFA items. The new system automates a lot of the tedious work that ATF employees and the National Firearms Act (NFA) division used to do manually. It remains to be seen if the system can withstand millions of additional form submissions.
This influx of millions of new applications will also backlog any other forms submitted for processing. The ATF promised that the average time to process a Form 1 tax stamp application would be 90 days. The ATF is nowhere close to that number, with only 30% being processed in the promised time period. With millions of additional applications, the 90-day period seems to be a pipe dream.
The new rule is expected to be announced by December of this year.
Fortunately, none of the pistols that I used to have (before the boat accident) ever required nor used any kind of brace. Not even the Dirty Harry special S&W Model 29 (with the 8 3/8 inch barrel for a perfect 10 inch sight radius).
Seems like the jack booted thugs are always looking for new ways to find and disarm the people.
That can’t do to us what they want to do to us as long as we can fight back.
They, along with the EPA, and the rest of the federal alphabet agencies have been doing such for decades. until they're all reigned in, they'll try to keep doing it.
uh oh - sounds like you're straying from the milquetoast GOPe party line.
You're not supposed to remember that the Stupid Party is only good at being professional opposition when it is in no position to effectively oppose anything.
Don't worry - someone will be along shortly to tell you about your duty to elect the lesser of two evils.
Let’s get ‘em all registered so it will be easier to take them later.
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A more detailed explanation here.
Now, go take your pedantic sanctimony and leave people who actually know firearms alone.
Look dude, keep your appeasement attitude to yourself. Your types give us Cocaine Mitch, and Mittens Romney, you stupid prick.
Another thing you stupid prick, I know a couple of veterans in my gun club who enjoy the sport but conventional rifles and carbines were too heavy and hard for them to handle. Then they discovered the AR pistol platform with the strapped brace they could put on their forearm and shoot accurately and more importantly, safely.
You said you can live with the Feds denying them a simple pleasure you enjoy with a “collapsible stock”, you’re the sanctimonious prick, not me.
Thanks for proving my point better than I ever could. Awesome.
More laws, more crime, more govt employees to enforce said crimes.
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